Aymeric Petit1, Laurent Karila2, Candice Estellat3, Delphine Moisan4, Michel Reynaud2, Marie-Pia D'Ortho5, Michel Lejoyeux4, Fanny Levy6. 1. Cabinet Carnot, 26, avenue Carnot, 75017 Paris, France; AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, addictologie, et tabacologie, 75018 Paris, France. Electronic address: aymericpetit@hotmail.fr. 2. AP-HP, hôpital Paul-Brousse, centre d'enseignement, de recherche, et de traitement des addictions, 94800 Villejuif, France. 3. AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, pôle santé publique, recherche clinique et information médicale, 75018 Paris, France. 4. AP-HP, France université Paris VII, hôpital Bichat, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, addictologie, et tabacologie, 75018 Paris, France. 5. Université Denis-Diderot Paris 7, hôpital Bichat, centre du sommeil, service de physiologie explorations fonctionnelles multidisciplinaires, 75018 Paris, France. 6. AP-HP, France université Paris VI, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, faculté de médecine, service de psychiatrie, 75013 Paris, France.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The relationship between sleep disorders and Internet addiction has been little work. Given the importance of these disorders, we felt it appropriate to make a synthesis of available data and to establish causality or accountability between Internet addiction and the onset of sleep disorders. METHODS: A literature review was then performed. We selected scientific articles in English and French, published between 1987 and 2016 by consulting the databases Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Google Scholar. The words used alone or in combination are as follows: addiction, dependence, Internet, behavioral addiction, sleep. RESULTS: A computer screen light inhibits melatonin secretion and acts as a real external desynchronizer circadian rhythm resulting in a withdrawal syndrome or syndrome sleep phase delay when the stress of social awakening is suppressed. CONCLUSION: We assume here that the specific treatment of addictive disorders have an influence on sleep disorders.
BACKGROUND: The relationship between sleep disorders and Internet addiction has been little work. Given the importance of these disorders, we felt it appropriate to make a synthesis of available data and to establish causality or accountability between Internet addiction and the onset of sleep disorders. METHODS: A literature review was then performed. We selected scientific articles in English and French, published between 1987 and 2016 by consulting the databases Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Google Scholar. The words used alone or in combination are as follows: addiction, dependence, Internet, behavioral addiction, sleep. RESULTS: A computer screen light inhibits melatonin secretion and acts as a real external desynchronizer circadian rhythm resulting in a withdrawal syndrome or syndrome sleep phase delay when the stress of social awakening is suppressed. CONCLUSION: We assume here that the specific treatment of addictive disorders have an influence on sleep disorders.